Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Kiltartan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltartan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10111, -8.81883
- SMR number
- GA122-104002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This wall monument consists of a canopied altar tomb which is located towards the E end of the N wall of the medieval church (GA122-104----). The front of the altar is divided into five panels capped by ogee-headed arches. The moulded arch soaring above it remains intact. A modern crucifix occupies the niche. Harbison (2005, 23) has dated this to the 15th century and suggests that the arches may once have been painted. A partially worked boulder now perched on the altar is reputed to be that tied to St Colman's mother when she was thrown into the Kiltartan River (Fahey 1904, 218-19).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 March 2020
References
Harbison, P. 2005 A thousand years of church heritage in east Galway. Dublin, Ashfield Press.
Fahey, J. 1893 Some Places of Interest near Gort Visited by the Society, August 11th, 1904. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 34, 211-19.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.